Lombroso Criminal Man

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8780-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

A new translation of Lombroso's L'Homme Delinquente, with a new scholarly introduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lombroso, Cesare

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mary Gibson, Gibson

Rafter, Nicole Hahn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables xiii

List of Illustrations xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Editors' Introduction 1

Edition 1 (1876)

Editors' Foreword 39

Author's Preface 43

1 Criminal Craniums (Sixty-six Skulls) 45

2 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 832 Criminals 50

3 Tattoos 58

4 Emotions of Criminals 63

5 Criminals and Religion 70

6 Intelligence and Education of Criminals 72

7 Jargon 77

8 Criminal Literature 79

9 Insanity and Crime 81

10 Organized Crime 85

11 Atavism and Punishment 91

Edition 2 (1878)

Editors' Foreword 97

Author's Preface 99

12 Suicide among Criminals 101

13 Criminals of Passion 105

14 Recidivism, Morality, and Remorse 108

15 Handwriting of Criminals 111

16 Etiology of Crime: Weather and Race 114

17 Etiology of Crime: Civilization, Alcohol, and Heredity 120

18 Etiology of Crime: Age, Sex, Moral Education, Genitals, and Imitation 127

19 Prevention of Crime 135

20 Penal Policy 141

Appendix 1 Giovanni Cavaglia 149

Appendix 2 A Medical Examination of Parricide and Insanity 154

Edition 3 (1884)

Editors' Foreword 161

Author's Preface 163

21 Crime and Inferior Organisms 167

22 Crime and Prostitution among Savages 175

23 Origins of Punishment 183

24 Moral Insanity and Crime among Children 188

25 Anomalies of the Brain and Internal Organs 198

26 Photographs of Born Criminals 202

27 Sensitivity and Blushing in Criminals 206

28 Moral Insanity and Born Criminality 212

29 Summary of Edition 3 221

Edition 4 (1889)

Editors' Foreword 227

Author's Preface 229

30 Metabolism, Menstruation, and Fertility 237

31 Criminal Communication 239

32 Art and industry among Criminals 244

33 The Epileptic Criminal 247

34 Epileptics and Born Criminals 253

35 Physiology and Etiology of Epilepsy 260

36 The Insane Criminal 267

37 Biology and Psychology of Insane Criminals 271

38 The Alcoholic Criminal 277

39 The Hysterical Criminal 281

40 The Mattoid 284

41 The Occasional Criminal 288

42 Edition 5 (1896-97)

Editors' Foreword 299

42 Criminal Craniums (689 Skulls) 301

43 Anthropometry and Physiognomy of 6,608 Criminals 306

44 Political Criminals 313

45 Etiology of Crime: Urban Density, Alcoholism, Wealth, and Religion 316

46 Etiology of Crime: Heredity, Sex, and Politics 325

47 Prevention of Crime 331

48 Synthesis and Penal Applications 338

Appendix 1 Comparison of the Five Italian Editions 357

Appendix 2 Illustrations in the Five Italian Editions 364

Notes 371

Glossary 401

References 411

Index 417

Über Autor(innen)

Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), an internationally famous Italian physician and criminologist, wrote extensively about jurisprudence and the causes of crime. He produced more than thirty books during his lifetime.Mary Gibson is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminality. Nicole Hahn Rafter is Senior Research Fellow at Northeastern University. Her books include Creating Born Criminals. Rafter and Gibson translated Lombroso’s Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman, also published by Duke University Press.